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Thread #24616   Message #287466
Posted By: Frankham
29-Aug-00 - 07:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: JC Makes a Bid for the US Presidency
Subject: RE: BS: JC Makes a Bid for the US Presidency
Hey everyone

Woody Guthrie was there first with this idea. Check out "Mermaid Avenue". Woody wrote his lyric in about 1940's or so.

I personally think Jesus was a socialist. Or a communist in the largest (not Bolshevik) sense of the word.

I think that Woody thought so too.

See his ballad of Jesus Christ as well as his Jesus For President song.

I don't think Jesus would waste his time running for pres. He'd have to hit up some campaign finances that would go against his grain. If he ran, he wouldn't be elected anyway because not enough people are around to practice what he preached. Now Constantine or St. Thomas Acquinas, that's a different story.

I thought it was an interesting idea. Woody was first.

Frank